Cell Biology
The organelle responsible for photosynthesis.
What is the chloroplast?
The molecule that carries genetic information.
What is DNA?
A group of the same species living in a specific area.
What is a population?
The organ that pumps blood throughout the body.
What is the heart?
The part of an experiment that is kept constant.
What is a control?
The cell structure that regulates what enters and exits the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
The term for a section of DNA that codes for a specific protein.
What is a gene?
The level of the energy pyramid with the most energy.
What are producers?
The body system responsible for breaking down food into nutrients.
What is the digestive system?
The variable that is purposely changed in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
The process by which cells produce energy in the presence of oxygen.
What is cellular respiration?
The observable traits of an organism.
What is a phenotype?
The relationship where one organism benefits and the other is harmed.
What is parasitism?
The protein that carries oxygen in red blood cells.
What is hemoglobin?
The process of gathering information using the five senses.
What is observation?
The type of cell division used for growth and repair in multicellular organisms.
What is mitosis?
The process by which mRNA is made from a DNA template.
What is transcription?
The process that recycles carbon through photosynthesis and cellular respiration.
What is the carbon cycle?
The system that produces hormones to regulate body processes.
What is the endocrine system?
A testable explanation for a scientific question.
What is a hypothesis?
The phase of the cell cycle where DNA is replicated.
What is the S phase (synthesis phase)?
The type of inheritance where both alleles are expressed equally in a heterozygote.
What is codominance?
The term for a non-native species that negatively impacts its new environment.
What is an invasive species?
The part of the brain that controls involuntary actions like breathing and heartbeat.
What is the medulla oblongata?
The step in the scientific method where data is analyzed to determine if the hypothesis is supported.
What is drawing a conclusion?